Topical Analysis of References from and Citations to Iranian International Patents

The purpose of this study is a topical analysis of references from and citations to Iranian international patents.  

This study is applied research that has been done using the library method, citation analysis, and Reverse citation relations analysis. Required data was collected through the USPTO and Scopus databases. The statistical population of this study includes 5806 patents and 895 articles. The tool used to analyze the findings of this research is Excel software.  

The highest number of references in Iranian international patents, base on the CPC, belongs to Human Necessities field (A). Iranian international patents have the highest references to patents in physics field (G) and the articles in the field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. They have also been cited by patents in Human Necessities (A) and articles in the field of engineering and Chemical Engineering.

In the last 14 years, the number of Iranian international patents in the USPTO database had an ascending growth. Patents in various subject classifications have more references and citations than scientific articles.